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Bill Murray attends a special screening of "Isle of Dogs" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Bill Murray compares ‘anti-gun’ Parkland students to Vietnam War protesters

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Noah King, 9, of Belmont, Mass., center, steps on stage to greet Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, from the left, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, Alex Wind, and Matt Deitsch, during a panel discussion about guns, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, in Cambridge, Mass. The Feb. 14, 2018 attack in Florida killed 17 people, 14 of them students. The students have become vocal advocates for stricter gun laws. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

The Latest: Shooting suspect’s brother says $500K bond high

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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 photo, Michelle Porter prepares her kindergarten classroom in McGregor, Texas. Porter was a senior at Columbine High School when two students killed 13 others in 1999. Now into her second year as a teacher at McGregor Primary School, when Porter sees headlines about school shootings, she tries not to think about the possibility of facing a similar situation again. (Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune Herald, via AP)

Columbine survivor now Texas teacher, talks of armed staff

By SHELLY CONLON - Associated Press

Students at Roosevelt High School take part in a protest against gun violence Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Seattle. Politicians in Washington state are joining students who walked out of class to protest against gun violence. It was part of a nationwide school walkout that calls for stricter gun laws following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school. (AP Photo file/Manuel Valdes)

AP: Widespread action on gun control in the states unlikely

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

FILE - Chicago gangster Al Capone has his photo taken while in custody in Philadelphia, May 18, 1929, on charges of carrying concealed weapons. It was gangland violence by Capone and others that spurred Congress to pass the first significant federal gun-control law in 1934. (AP Photo)

Echoes of Al Capone heard in today’s gun-control debate

By ALLEN G. BREED and SHARON COHEN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, Somerville High School students sit on the sidewalk on Highland Avenue during a student walkout at the school in Somerville, Mass. A large-scale, coordinated demonstration is planned for Wednesday, March 14, when organizers have called for a 17-minute school walkout nationwide to protest gun violence. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via AP, File) **FILE**

Chicago GOP alleges ‘political indoctrination’ in complaint against school gun-control walkouts

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

High school students in Astoria, Ore., hold up signs during a walkout Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Students across Oregon left class Wednesday to join a call by young activists for stricter gun laws. (Colin Murphey/Daily Astorian via AP)

Adults: It’s your move, students say after historic walkouts

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Students from D.C.-area schools rally for stricter gun control legislation Wednesday on the southeast lawn of the U.S. Capitol during the National School Walkout. In similar acts across the nation, students walked out of classes and held a 17-minute moment of silence in honor of the victims in the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Photo by Julia Airey / The Washington Times

House OKs Stop School Violence Act; FBI’s David Bowdich testifies on Nikolas Cruz failures to Senate

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Students from D.C.-area schools rally for stricter gun control legislation Wednesday on the southeast lawn of the U.S. Capitol during the National School Walkout. In similar acts across the nation, students walked out of classes and held a 17-minute moment of silence in honor of the victims in the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Photo by Julia Airey / The Washington Times

Students from D.C., Maryland, Virginia schools rally at U.S. Capitol for gun control

By Julia Airey - The Washington Times

Diamond Bryant, center, a freshman at James Ferris High School walks with classmates during a student walkout, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Jersey City, N.J. Students across the country participated in walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside a high school in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

NRA tweet: ‘I’ll control my own guns’

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In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, Somerville High School students sit on the sidewalk on Highland Avenue during a student walkout at the school in Somerville, Mass. A large-scale, coordinated demonstration is planned for Wednesday, March 14, when organizers have called for a 17-minute school walkout nationwide to protest gun violence. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via AP, File) **FILE**

US students stage massive walkout to protest gun violence

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined at right by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., holds a news conference to unveil his plan to address gun violence with legislation on restraining orders, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

D.C. leaders call for Marco Rubio to withdraw 2017 gun bill

By Julia Airey - The Washington Times

Thousands of high school students hold a rally after they walked out of their schools and marched to the state Capitol in Saint Paul, Minn., Wednesday, March 7, 2018, to protest gun violence and pressure lawmakers to enact stricter gun control. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP)

Some teachers expected to cut class with students at National School Walkout for gun control

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This March 1968 photo provided by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center shows protesters during the Theodore Roosevelt High School walkout. Participants of a 1968 Los Angeles high school walkout over dropout rates, paddle beatings for speaking Spanish and other issues say they are hearing echoes of those protests in the voices of outraged students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people died in a mass shooting. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the several high schools joining the protest. (Devra Weber/La Raza Photograph collection/UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center via AP)

‘68 Los Angeles school protesters see link to Parkland teens

By Russell Contreras and Noreen Nasir - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018 file photo, students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooter opened fire on the campus. Emergency calls from parents and students during the Florida high school massacre show 911 operators at first trying to grasp the enormity of the emergency and then calmly trying to gather information to assist arriving law enforcement officers. The officers arrive to find chaos as delays allowed the shooter to flee. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

Trump backs off call for raising minimum age to buy gun

By JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo, students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooter opened fire on the campus. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

The Latest: FBI details mistakes handling tip line calls

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This Feb. 19, 2018 file photo shows a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Parkland city’s historian Jeff Schwartz is setting a plan in motion to collect, archive and preserve the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mementos. Meanwhile, school administrators have vowed to build a memorial after the demolition of the building where the Feb. 14 attack took place. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

A grim task: Preserving mementos from the Florida shooting

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

Florida school shooting survivors visit Sept. 11 museum

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **

Betsy DeVos praises students despite taking guff for visit to Florida school shooting site

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times